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Solon, Ohio, United States

• Responsible for helping people buy, sell and invest in real estate in the Cleveland OH area.• Expert in customer service, negotiation, and sales.• Relationship builder thru networking and community service.

Solon, Oh

Responsible for Customer Communication and Marketing for The Bergansky Team. Work with The Bergansky Team to provide excellent Customer Service to all our clients. Created the Procedure Manual, and put together the Hops for Heroes Event, honoring First Responders and Veterans. Created a monthly newsletter to send to our clients. Help the team seek new clients and perform all necessary functions to further the customer experience.

Fairfax, Virginia

• Responsible for helping people buy, sell and invest in real estate in the Northern VA area. • Expert in customer service, negotiation, and sales.• Relationship builder thru networking and community service.

Baltimore, Maryland Area

• Senior Merchandise planner for newly created Owned and Operated Stores Division of Pandora Jewelry.• Created allocation system to replenish 50 stores. • Developed strategy to eliminate aged inventory and redistribute merchandise to optimize stock levels. • Participated in business management meetings, presenting analysis, and offering strategic objectives to develop new division.• Worked closely with store planning on opening stock levels for new stores.• Developed and supported working relationships with stores, districts and regions.

Hoffman Estates, Il

Creates bottom-up and tops down yearly financial plans for Kmart and Sears Tabletop, with combined yearly sales of $65M.• Creates and maintains monthly financial forecasts for sales, gross profit, and inventory.• Develops markdown strategies and liability inventory strategies that minimize markdowns. • Participates in in-season business management meetings, presenting analysis, calling out issues and recommending action objectives.• Supports the business review and line review processes with data and analysis.• Identifies trends, opportunities, and risk to current forecasts and the next period’s plan.• Drives liquidation of liability inventory through use of appropriate tools.• Serves as business partner to the buying team.• Utilizes appropriate replenishment strategies.• Determines allocation strategy.• Maintains and supports working relationships with stores, districts, regions and vendors.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Responsible for creating bottoms-up and tops down yearly financial plans for Books/Media, Jewelry, and Mineral/Gem Stone areas of the Smithsonian Gift Shops.• Reforecasted Sales, Gross Margin and Inventories quarterly to maximize profits.• Recommended markdown strategies and managed Open to Buy.• Utilized 80/20 reports to review assortments and provide buyers with recommendations on exit strategies for non-performing items.• Created a Monthly and rolling YTD financial report for Senior Management reviewing sales, gross margin and current inventory positions.• Analyzed sales and provided projections for new items for upcoming exhibits and sales initiatives.• Reviewed and analyzed efficiency of basic stock system and advised buyers on accuracy of basic stock orders to maximize sales and limit out of stocks. • Reduced aged inventory in books by 50 percent in fiscal 2008.• Assisted Merchandise Manager in developing new product for Special Exhibits.

Quantico, Va

Responsible for creating bottom-up yearly financial plans for the $220M hard line division of Marine Corps Exchange.• Adjust and implement fiscal sales plans quarterly by analyzing business trends by Command by category and recommend plan changes to Buyers and Divisional Merchandise Manager.• Developed master stock assortment program to combine reporting system incorporating all worldwide commands with the implementation of centralized buying in 2005.• Manage the planning time line to ensure plans are executed by set deadlines.• Analyze stock levels and recommend assortments by line of business.• Define basic stock opportunities and recommend strategies to prevent out-of-stocks and missed sales opportunities.• Partner with Buyers to achieve monthly open-to-buy and advice on business strategies to manage receipts, markdowns and discontinued merchandise.

Arlington, Va

• Replenishment Analyst quickly promoted to Senior Analyst in Housewares/Textiles. • Analyzed business statistics and implemented retail strategy for $67M category. • Implemented bottom-up strategy for merchandising new and remodeled stores. • Recommended assortments for new product rollouts by SKU /module/store tier. • Submitted monthly product forecasts to vendors and corporate initiated import programs. • Partnered with Buyers on markdown strategies and discontinued merchandise. • Managed replenishment systems and initiated fill-in orders to maximize sales. • Managed monthly receipt flow and open-to-buy. • Acted as a liaison between Sales Management and Merchant Organization. • Developed and trained new Analysts to the organization. • Handled shipping problems and vendor relations.

Sourced, negotiated, and purchased merchandise for a Premium/Incentive company.• Conceptualized and developed catalogs and special programs.• Created copy and proofread text.• Forecasted warehouse stock levels.• Product and Relationship Management (Vendor Relations).• Developed and implemented sales strategies.• Negotiated terms and catalog allowances.• Supervised staff of 8.

• Product and Relationship Management (Vendor Relations).• Managed and implemented departmental Budget.• Developed and implemented retail division marketing strategies.• Sourced and expedited purchases for 1400 Retail Stores.• Initiated and analyzed retail marketing surveys.• Liaison between Marketing Department and Field Organization covering marketing issues.• Assisted Visual Merchandisers in creating redisplay concepts for redisplay and seasonal floor sets.